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>This is why we can't have nice things More like this is why we can't have nice promises. Promises, on their own, are useless. Why should you get the PR boost

by devcpp 12y ago

>This is why we can't have nice things More like this is why we can't have nice promises. Promises, on their own, are useless. Why should you get the PR boost from an openness promise if you don't actually end up fulfilling it? This is pretty much like false advertising, where you promise some aspects of a product and end up delivering something different. No matter your excuse, this is wrong and unfair to competitors. But business is business and companies still end up making those weak promises to grab some more market share.

forrestthewoods 12y ago
Because it wasn't a god damned promise!! There should be nothing wrong with saying "this is our current plan" and that plan changing down the road (when it makes sense to change). Anyone who has ever worked on anything in their life knows that plans change. Sometimes plans change to something else that's better. Sometimes ideas that are great on paper don't work in practice and need to be scrapped. Sometimes a plan is a great idea but an unanticipated roadblock makes it impossible or prohibitively expensive to accomplish. So yes. Companies can never say anything publicly until it's already done. And I think that's a god damned shame. So again I say, this is why we can't have nice things.
- icebraining 12y ago
  Companies can never say anything publicly until it's already done. And I think that's a god damned shame. Why?
- throwaway7767 12y ago
  Of course plans change can change. That said, we all know "that guy". You know, the slick "idea guy" marketer who always has grand plans but never follows through? Who jumps on any hot PR topic that gets him publicity? After a while, you sort of tune him out, because you know his plans never amount to anything. I have no idea whether cloudflares efforts fall into this pattern. But I know enough companies that behave this way that I think I can safely say that not all corporate "plans" are announced with the intentions of actually following through on them.

by devcpp 12y ago

forrestthewoods 12y ago

Because it wasn't a god damned promise!! There should be nothing wrong with saying "this is our current plan" and that plan changing down the road (when it makes sense to change). Anyone who has ever worked on anything in their life knows that plans change. Sometimes plans change to something else that's better. Sometimes ideas that are great on paper don't work in practice and need to be scrapped. Sometimes a plan is a great idea but an unanticipated roadblock makes it impossible or prohibitively expensive to accomplish. So yes. Companies can never say anything publicly until it's already done. And I think that's a god damned shame. So again I say, this is why we can't have nice things.

icebraining 12y ago
Companies can never say anything publicly until it's already done. And I think that's a god damned shame. Why?
throwaway7767 12y ago
Of course plans change can change. That said, we all know "that guy". You know, the slick "idea guy" marketer who always has grand plans but never follows through? Who jumps on any hot PR topic that gets him publicity? After a while, you sort of tune him out, because you know his plans never amount to anything. I have no idea whether cloudflares efforts fall into this pattern. But I know enough companies that behave this way that I think I can safely say that not all corporate "plans" are announced with the intentions of actually following through on them.